This whole “troop surge” is just a way to avoid dealing with the inept Administration’s unsuccessful democratization of Iraq and leave it to the next President to solve–and be forced to redeploy out of Iraq–we mustn’t say “retreat”. Meanwhile, more Americans (and Iraqis, but they don’t count) will be killed or horribly maimed to allow Bush and his cronies to save face and not have a defeat on THEIR records…